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MATT CHAMBERLAIN He’S Moved from Texas to New York to Seattle and Now to L.A., Sometimes Following Employment and Sometimes Chasing His Muse !.!-!:).'% 02/ 02):%0!#+!'% %&//*4$)".#&34*/'-6&/$&4t130500-4 7). &2/-0%!2, VALUED ATOVER *ANUARY 4HE7ORLDS$RUM-AGAZINE )®4,&3%®4 /"*-5)04& (3"/5)"35 5&.104 ""30/$0.&44 5*14'035*.&,&&1*/( :&"340'41*/ "/*."-4"4-&"%&34 4637*7"-,*5 /"7&/&,01&38&*4 .645)"7&4'035)&30"% J>;ED;;L;HO8E:OM7DJI C7JJ9>7C8;HB7?D !ND !$,%2 ")33/.%44% #!22).'4/. '!4:%. (%97!2$ -ODERN$RUMMERCOM +%,4.%2 2%)4:%,, 2),%9 3!.#(%: 3(!2/.% 7!2$ Volume 36, Number 1 • Cover photo by Alex Solca CONTENTS Alex Solca Paul La Raia 36 AARON COMESS It’s been twenty years since the Spin Doctors embedded them- selves in the recesses of our ears with hits like “Two Princes,” “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong,” and “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues.” Turns out those gloriously grooving performances represent but one side of this well-traveled drummer’s career. by Robin Tolleson Ebet Roberts 48 MATT CHAMBERLAIN He’s moved from Texas to New York to Seattle and now to L.A., sometimes following employment and sometimes chasing his muse. With his technical abilities and artful aesthetic, however, the first-call drummer would probably have plenty of work even if he moved to the moon. by Michael Dawson 64 GRANT HART In the mid-’80s, Hüsker Dü fused hardcore punk with bittersweet pop, setting the table for an entire generation of angst-ridden alterna-rockers. 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